28 September, 2016

I finished the quilt, just in time for our quilt group's exhibition but it did not turn out the way I want/like it. I am calling it death by quilting.... almost nothing of the patched top remaind visible (yes, the double wedding ring blocks are still there...) after I quilted way to many and red diagonal lines.I am blaming Aurifil as I was not able to buy any thread at the Patchwork Meeting in Saints-Marie-aux-Mines this year, (they sponsor this event and I had no problems in the last years to get my threads, I will have to get myself one of those thread sample cards for color matching and start bying it online, which I hate!) not a single vendor with plain white Aurifil thread. Back at home I bought Sulky/Güterman Quilting thread in "red"- stupid idea but I was desperate only 3 more nights to finish the quilt... The thread quality is not even close to Aurifil's. I have never had that much lint in my sewing life, "Wollmäuse" (bunch of thread big as a mouse) in my sewingmachine, arrg.Whatever, once I have "him" back I will change the quilting and at least I learned a lot of what I will never do again.